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Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet #2)

Lawrence Durrell

Paperback | Pages: 280 pages

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Original Title:	Balthazar
ISBN:	1400000289 (ISBN13: 9781400000289)
Edition Language:	Spanish
Series:	Alexandria Quartet #2
Characters:	Justine Hosnani, Nessim Hosnani, Clea Montis, Gaston Pombal, S. Balthazar, Josh Scobie, Leila Hosnani, Narouz Hosnani, L.G. Darley, Paul Capodistria, Percy Pursewarden, David Mountolive
Setting:	Alexandria(Egypt) Egypt

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Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes of the central character L.G. Darley, who observes the interactions of his lovers, friends, and acquaintances. Balthazar, named for Darley's friend, a doctor and mystic, interprets Darley's views from a philosophical and intellectual viewpoint.

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Title	:	Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet #2)
Author	:	Lawrence Durrell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 280 pages
Published	:	February 19th 2002 by Sudamericana (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Northern Africa. Egypt. Literary Fiction. Novels

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I did not intend to review any of the Alexandria Quartet until I had finished them all. Durrell makes it clear in the first novel _Justine_ that the series cannot be comprehended as a whole until it has been read in its entirety. However, I wanted to share some thoughts now that I'm halfway through. These are fascinating and interesting books in which, much like Proust's _In Search of Lost Time_, the people the narrator knows shift in meaning and affect as he considers them in different

I liked the first two volumes of the Alexandria quartet very much, and for two reasons. The characters are to me extremely interesting, and the setting of Alexandria is both exotic and romantic.



Simply the saddest, most beautiful re-telling of the events covered in Justine, yet with a richness that enhances the previous book and surpasses it. It's full of charm and musings on love, loss, life and the familiar yet painful uncovering of news that you didn't want to hear. All the while it adds a depth and complexity to the overall narrative (of the Quartet) that builds an excitement about the coming two volumes.Now I've finished the second book of the Quartet on my second reading I'm

Durrell occupies a strange position at the fulcrum of modernity. His style is often baroque and prone to exoticism (at first, he evokes 19th century British colonial literature above all else), but this volume, the second of his best known Alexandria Quartet, reveals more modern preoccupations besides. A perceptive character observes modern art's debt to theoretical physics, and so it is: the novel's tangle of disinterested and capricious love affairs (modern and age-old) shift and squirm in

This is a review of the audiobook, which I received in exchange for an honest review from Brilliance Audio.I originally read the second book of the Alexandria Quartet in 2009, and stopped without finishing the quartet. My goal is to get through all four books this year, but it is definitely slower going since I'm using the audio version. Narrator Jack Klaff makes great efforts to distinguish between characters but sometimes that makes me really hate the time we spend with some of them. Scobie

I'm beginning to think Durrell is one of the great writers of the 20th century. Really, the writing is just incredible. Like music on the page. ("An Arab woman makes my bed, beating the pillows till they fluff out like the white of egg under a whisk...") "Baroque," I think George Steiner called it. Durrell said that the second two novels in the quartet weren't sequels, because that indicates a relationship in time; rather, they are siblings. (The fourth novel, he says, is a legitimate sequel.)